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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

Brian A. Skiff

Brian A. Skiff publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

ORCID 0000-0001-5306-6220 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,401,064
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#956,413
of 1,627,098
Works
310
Citations
6k
Citations per work
19.3
h-index
27
i10-index 52Top 19% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Brian A. Skiff

What does Brian A. Skiff research?

Brian A. Skiff's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (63%), Engineering (13%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 257 works · 83.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 195 works · 63.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 166 works · 53.7% of their workInstrumentation: 29 works · 9.3% of their workEngineering: 41 works · 13.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 30 works · 9.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 11 works · 3.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 16 works · 5.2% of their workEcology: 16 works · 5.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 1.7% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 53 works · 17.0% of their workTHEIR WORKBrian A. Skiff310works
Physical Sciences83%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy19563.0%
    2. Engineering4113.1%
    3. Environmental Science165.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences51.7%
  2. Everything else5317.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology5% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian A. Skiff's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances1321 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets1321 topic
  3. Exoplanets1241 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics1241 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement771 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector771 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation751 topic
  8. Spectrograph751 topic
  9. Mars461 topic
  10. Martian Surface461 topic
  11. Stable Isotopes421 topic
  12. Trophic Position421 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds331 topic
  14. Star Formation331 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy291 topic
  16. Transits of Venus291 topic

Where does Brian A. Skiff work?

Brian A. Skiff's main affiliation in the publication record is Lowell Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian A. Skiff have?

OpenAlex counts 310 works and 5,987 citations for Brian A. Skiff, an h-index of 27, ranking #3,401,064 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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